I enjoyed this, thanks! Greetings from the beautiful shores of Lake Saint Clair - as the sun rises this morning the seagulls are back, flying overhead and as loud as ever, the mourning doves are cooing, the robin's chirping, and the lake lightly lapping the shores. God bless this beautiful place that some of us love to call "home".
My 3rd and 2nd great grandparents settled along Lake St. Clair (1820s-1830s) and our family has never really left the area. From Mt. Clemens to Grosse Pointe (their farm was next to the Morross' " . I grew up in a subdivision along the Clinton River, and I can confirm its flooding is notorious and is a haven for mosquitoes. My grandfather used to tell me about St. Felicity. The history of the area from the 1700's which this segment doesn't touch is very interesting: The Moravian Missionaries, Chippewa Indian Tribe and German settlers who all used the area and fought over it the navigation of the Clinton river branches...As a native, I wish more effort was put into this.
My stomping grounds! I grew up on Anchor Bay, Lake St. Clair. It’s a beautiful area with incredible rich history. It’s holds a special place in my heart and soul
Schoolmates played hockey on frozen LSC and were rescued by Coast Guard when ice broke off and headed for Detroit River. Others sailed off at dinner and “found their thrill on Strawberry Hill” and had to be rescued from Strawberry Island
Does anyone remember a man named Ray Trombley? He was a devoted conservationist, fishing guide and was instrumental in creating and managing the smallmouth bass population in the lake. I had the pleasure of fishing with him several times in the 70's and 80's. A true Lake St. Clair legacy
My dad grew up with Ray & his brother(s), they were friends for years. Ray used to live way out at the very end of North River Rd., where it stuck out into the lake. We lived farther up the Clinton River. The residents and township wanted to get rid of some old rotted off pilings out there that boats were hitting, so they hired my dad, a self-taught part-time underwater demolition guy (not his regular job) to work with the Army Corp of Eng. to place underwater explosives at the bases of the pilings, and blew them up. I still have an old photo of a bunch of fish that floated up dead from the concussion!
@@QueenofHuronia Wow, great story...I do remember the house on North River Road. I believe one of his son's carried on the charter business for a short time after Ray died. I heard the boat that he built and used all those year was sunk in the lake as a fish gathering spot.
My Dad had a home movie camera and had a video that was taken around the late '50s-early '60s from when we went out to Lake St Clair for the day. I think it was an uncle who caught a brook trout that would've weighed about 5-6 pounds. I was too young to remember but my Dad got a good video of it. I didn't know St. Clair had brook trout.
Ive walk across the North channel many times with my Dad in the winter to get to the St Clair flatts for some off the best pike spearing in the world and in only about 2 ft of water after the ice was formed, generally about 1ft thick or so in our heated shanty, after spearing many lunkers, I consider myself blessed to have had these wonderful expiriences on lake St Clair
Love this lake. We lived in Roseville from 87 to 94. Every winter was an ice fishing dream. Usually off of Selfrige or Metro. Love those late winter sow belly Perch.
@@frankmcmahon5820 yes, Canada is directly south of Detroit, so Windsor is more or less the gateway to Toledo, which in turn Toledo is the gateway to tropical & beautiful Lima, Ohio.
I agree with the comment of this being like a commercial video. I wanted more about the subject matter, and in 28 minutes, it seemed like they spent 7 minutes actually talking about the history. But it was enjoyable!
@@alanjohnson2613 Compare the lake as it was in the 1600's to what it is now. How is attracting more people to the area going to improve the lake or the lives of the majority of people already here?
came for a random video about the never talked about lake st. Claire. come to find out i live in what was the old belvedere city right on the Clinton River 😂🎉 awesome to learn about mt Clemons and the river I've been exploring the past few years!
How fortunate for us who live in the area that we have such a beautiful and enjoyable resource. Lake St Claire is actually a delta for the upper great lakes
It's interesting but more like a commerce video. Does not really cover much of lost towns or cemetery. Sure hope water can stay clean and protected from being sold.
Yeah, sort of an intro to whet interest and look for more detailed videos about the area and its long history. Im going to see if the Historysea channel has anything. He's detailed oriented and provides info of doings elsewhere on the timeline. Good stuff
I live on the Clinton River and I love this water id never jump into 😂 I thought people were exaggerating a few years back when I moved here. although its not swimmable its amazing the amount of wildlife on the river in this area. great fishing and boating area too!
As a 3rd and 4th grader at the now torn down Selfridge AFB Elementary School in the mid 1960s when the Beatles ruled, it was always a joy to catch a stringerfull of perch to take home to eat every day after school. We didn't want to catch those mudpuppies and carp though.
Enjoyed the lake when I was kid, and dad and I did a lot of fishing there and the bays around Harsen, and Dickenson Islands. Compared to Lake St. Clair, fishing for trout in Colorado sucked. Missed the perch, sunfish, walleye, pike and, Muskie we used to catch. Came back after 35 years, and enjoy the fishing again!
I believe it was back in the 80s when we had a priest at St. Gertrude Father Mike, who went in search of St. Felicity and found it The Macomb Daily covered the story..
Hello, can anyone help me with the lake bottome of Lake St. Clair? I'm looking at a project and need what the bottom is consists of? Thanks in advance. If you don't know what it's made of, can you point me in the right direction? I've been searching and asking for a couple months with no luck.
My dad did alot of diving in the top half, off shore of Harrison Twp., Chesterfield Twp. & New Baltimore area. Mostly sand and clay, sandy silt on top, thick clay under it. very silty, and the shallowness with so much wave action makes the water more murky and muddy, not crystal blue like the northern Great Lakes. Although since the zebra mussel invasion, the water is alot clearer than it used to be.
I live in St Clair Shores and I had no idea there was even a place called Belvidere. It's crazy all of the stuff that went down back when. Funny how a lot of the names of things here and there still survive with no evidence of their origins.
@jakegarvin7634 it's a river it's not wide enough to turn at all it has 3 of the great lakes and millions of acres of land drainage emptying into it. I've taken my boat with a 125 hp motor up that river full throttle and your not moving. I know eneough about sailing to know that answer is one of the dumbest comments on UA-cam
@peterpeplinski9923 thanks, I thought that would get a laugh...and I live on that river too lol...if you can't tack up the current (pre engine) then you had to get off and walk...but what a fucking river to do some boating on, right? Beautiful
Yes. As they said in the video...many boats that are used during warm weather are taken out of the water and stored on-shore to reduce the chance of ice damage. Lake St. Clair is a fresh-water lake which freezes solid (ice thickness depends on how cold and how long). Boats that aren't removed typically have a air-pump/compressor/air-stone whose bubbles keep the water agitated around the hull and prevents ice from forming.
What kills me is Lake St Clair isn't considered part of the Great Lakes but yet you can't get from Lake Huron to Lake Erie without going through Lake Sinclair
Not a word about how the lake has become a dumping ground for human waste and non-native plant and animal species but as long as the surface is shiny...those that live on the edges still like it.
We don't just like our lake, we LOVE it! There are many initiatives and local organizations that are working to clean it up, because of course we care. In the meantime, if you have found a magical way to make big corporations do the right thing and clean it up themselves, I would love to hear about it.
The answer is expensive. The storm and sanitary drains need to be separated, as right now they are shared. Whenever there is a large rain it overwhelms the drain, which leads to water treatment plants. During this time, the drains are diverted to the lake. So, separate the two systems and also make use of more natural ways to retain storm water, like ditches and engineered grassy low spots.
oof i moved over to a place ON the Clinton River a few years ago knowing nothing about this area and I couldn't agree more! it is nasssty water in the Clinton River. the beach at metro park is also a place Id never go to again! there are a lot of nice clean beaches north of Mt Clemons, near Port Huron. it's definitely worth the short drive for a day on a clean, free, uncrowded beach.
huh.? I saw a bever across the river a few weeks ago. they're definitely out here on the ol clinton River my friend. lots of cranes and blue herons everywhere....
I live 15 min boat ride up the Clinton River and it actually did freeze for about 3 days. not the entire lake of course but enough to walk out and drill a hole! caught a couple perch too. until next year my friend!
I enjoyed this, thanks! Greetings from the beautiful shores of Lake Saint Clair - as the sun rises this morning the seagulls are back, flying overhead and as loud as ever, the mourning doves are cooing, the robin's chirping, and the lake lightly lapping the shores. God bless this beautiful place that some of us love to call "home".
I love living on lake St Clair. Paradise for sure.
I love watching the sunrise from Lake St Clair.
My 3rd and 2nd great grandparents settled along Lake St. Clair (1820s-1830s) and our family has never really left the area. From Mt. Clemens to Grosse Pointe (their farm was next to the Morross' " . I grew up in a subdivision along the Clinton River, and I can confirm its flooding is notorious and is a haven for mosquitoes. My grandfather used to tell me about St. Felicity. The history of the area from the 1700's which this segment doesn't touch is very interesting: The Moravian Missionaries, Chippewa Indian Tribe and German settlers who all used the area and fought over it the navigation of the Clinton river branches...As a native, I wish more effort was put into this.
My stomping grounds! I grew up on Anchor Bay, Lake St. Clair. It’s a beautiful area with incredible rich history. It’s holds a special place in my heart and soul
Schoolmates played hockey on frozen LSC and were rescued by Coast Guard when ice broke off and headed for Detroit River. Others sailed off at dinner and “found their thrill on Strawberry Hill” and had to be rescued from Strawberry Island
I spent a lot of time on lake St. Clair with my dad on his boat. He had a home on Harsens island once upon a time. I always loved the entire area.
Harsen's Island is so nice, he was a lucky man!
U still have that house?
Does anyone remember a man named Ray Trombley?
He was a devoted conservationist, fishing guide and was instrumental in creating and managing the smallmouth bass population in the lake.
I had the pleasure of fishing with him several times in the 70's and 80's.
A true Lake St. Clair legacy
I used see his name around in the Detroit Free Press!
@@donaldfeger91He was a cool guy
My dad grew up with Ray & his brother(s), they were friends for years. Ray used to live way out at the very end of North River Rd., where it stuck out into the lake. We lived farther up the Clinton River. The residents and township wanted to get rid of some old rotted off pilings out there that boats were hitting, so they hired my dad, a self-taught part-time underwater demolition guy (not his regular job) to work with the Army Corp of Eng. to place underwater explosives at the bases of the pilings, and blew them up. I still have an old photo of a bunch of fish that floated up dead from the concussion!
@@QueenofHuronia Wow, great story...I do remember the house on North River Road. I believe one of his son's carried on the charter business for a short time after Ray died. I heard the boat that he built and used all those year was sunk in the lake as a fish gathering spot.
Yea was the name of my Grade School in GPP.......(i am guessing named after him) also a street
As a resident of St Clair Shores for over 60+ years, I can honestly say it is like paradise...
Hallooooo neighbor!! ❤ A blessed Easter to you!
I live about an hour away from Lake St. Claire and have never seen it. It's a beautiful area with much history. Thanks for the video.
Nice reminder of the area I grew up, lived, and boated in.
Nice narration by Mr Carey......reminded me of the great Mort Crim
Mort Crim was my next door neighbor in Grosse Pointe Farms when I was a kid.
11:30 what a neat opportunity--to study a flooded 170 year old town would be awesome.
My Dad had a home movie camera and had a video that was taken around the late '50s-early '60s from when we went out to Lake St Clair for the day. I think it was an uncle who caught a brook trout that would've weighed about 5-6 pounds. I was too young to remember but my Dad got a good video of it. I didn't know St. Clair had brook trout.
Ive walk across the North channel many times with my Dad in the winter to get to the St Clair flatts for some off the best pike spearing in the world and in only about 2 ft of water after the ice was formed, generally about 1ft thick or so in our heated shanty, after spearing many lunkers, I consider myself blessed to have had these wonderful expiriences on lake St Clair
Love this lake. We lived in Roseville from 87 to 94. Every winter was an ice fishing dream. Usually off of Selfrige or Metro. Love those late winter sow belly Perch.
Grew up in Roseville
very well researched and produced
so this is a documentary on Anchor Bay... not Lake St Clair. Most of the lake is in Canada.
Never heard of it
Canada that is south of Detroit or is that Toledo?
@@frankmcmahon5820 yes, Canada is directly south of Detroit, so Windsor is more or less the gateway to Toledo, which in turn Toledo is the gateway to tropical & beautiful Lima, Ohio.
@@frankmcmahon5820both 😂
@@frankmcmahon5820 heh heh...
I go to Metropark everyday.
Love it!
I agree with the comment of this being like a commercial video. I wanted more about the subject matter, and in 28 minutes, it seemed like they spent 7 minutes actually talking about the history. But it was enjoyable!
Whats wrong with it being a commercial for lake st clair, we need more of these if we expect to lure more people to s.e. Michigan.
@@alanjohnson2613 Compare the lake as it was in the 1600's to what it is now. How is attracting more people to the area going to improve the lake or the lives of the majority of people already here?
came for a random video about the never talked about lake st. Claire. come to find out i live in what was the old belvedere city right on the Clinton River 😂🎉 awesome to learn about mt Clemons and the river I've been exploring the past few years!
How fortunate for us who live in the area that we have such a beautiful and enjoyable resource. Lake St Claire is actually a delta for the upper great lakes
I have a question, I've seen your post. Very similar to my posts.
Reminds me of the videos in school we watched 😅
My parents build a cottage on Hansen's Island when my dad retired on North Channel Drive. It was a great time in our lives.
It's interesting but more like a commerce video. Does not really cover much of lost towns or cemetery. Sure hope water can stay clean and protected from being sold.
I agree 100% and definitely not long enough. Very disappointing to say the least.
Yeah, sort of an intro to whet interest and look for more detailed videos about the area and its long history. Im going to see if the Historysea channel has anything. He's detailed oriented and provides info of doings elsewhere on the timeline. Good stuff
I miss home in St. Clair Shores. Not every documentary needs to point out the sh-tty side of everything. I enjoyed this.
I live on the Clinton River and I love this water id never jump into 😂 I thought people were exaggerating a few years back when I moved here. although its not swimmable its amazing the amount of wildlife on the river in this area. great fishing and boating area too!
As a 3rd and 4th grader at the now torn down Selfridge AFB Elementary School in the mid 1960s when the Beatles ruled, it was always a joy to catch a stringerfull of perch to take home to eat every day after school. We didn't want to catch those mudpuppies and carp though.
Enjoyed the lake when I was kid, and dad and I did a lot of fishing there and the bays around Harsen, and Dickenson Islands. Compared to Lake St. Clair, fishing for trout in Colorado sucked. Missed the perch, sunfish, walleye, pike and, Muskie we used to catch.
Came back after 35 years, and enjoy the fishing again!
And found and married the Queen of Huronia!! ; )
I believe it was back in the 80s when we had a priest at St. Gertrude Father Mike, who went in search of St. Felicity and found it The Macomb Daily covered the story..
The invasive phragmites weed has displaced the other reeds and rice that thrived before the 1980s
Glad to see lake st.clair only has one side!
Hello, can anyone help me with the lake bottome of Lake St. Clair? I'm looking at a project and need what the bottom is consists of? Thanks in advance. If you don't know what it's made of, can you point me in the right direction? I've been searching and asking for a couple months with no luck.
I grew up on the Canadian side of the lake. Pretty sure it’s mostly sand and clay.
My dad did alot of diving in the top half, off shore of Harrison Twp., Chesterfield Twp. & New Baltimore area. Mostly sand and clay, sandy silt on top, thick clay under it. very silty, and the shallowness with so much wave action makes the water more murky and muddy, not crystal blue like the northern Great Lakes. Although since the zebra mussel invasion, the water is alot clearer than it used to be.
Grew up in New Baltimore and you're correct. Sand, silt, and clay
"....'an wind can blow laik 'urricane, an' 'spose she blows some more, you can't get drowned in Lac St. Clair so long you stay on shore"
Love paddle boarding on Lake St Clair !
A very interesting story about Be!vedere. I never heard until now.
I live in St Clair Shores and I had no idea there was even a place called Belvidere. It's crazy all of the stuff that went down back when. Funny how a lot of the names of things here and there still survive with no evidence of their origins.
Aren't residents who live on the lake still fighting to have raw human waste stopped from bring dumped in here from the sewage treatment centers???
This is great. But I feel like I should be in a classroom back in the 80s. My hair is becoming larger as I watch.
Before engines how would a boat make it up the st Clair river
It was terrible, everyone had to fart at once in the same direction...a lot of the extra cargo space was reserved for beans
Kidding friend , you had to sail in a 45 degree zig zag with your sails tight
@jakegarvin7634 it's a river it's not wide enough to turn at all it has 3 of the great lakes and millions of acres of land drainage emptying into it. I've taken my boat with a 125 hp motor up that river full throttle and your not moving. I know eneough about sailing to know that answer is one of the dumbest comments on UA-cam
@peterpeplinski9923 thanks, I thought that would get a laugh...and I live on that river too lol...if you can't tack up the current (pre engine) then you had to get off and walk...but what a fucking river to do some boating on, right? Beautiful
Oh and you gotta remember back then ships were smaller too
Many boats are taken out in the winter?
Yes. As they said in the video...many boats that are used during warm weather are taken out of the water and stored on-shore to reduce the chance of ice damage. Lake St. Clair is a fresh-water lake which freezes solid (ice thickness depends on how cold and how long). Boats that aren't removed typically have a air-pump/compressor/air-stone whose bubbles keep the water agitated around the hull and prevents ice from forming.
Lol all of them unless you hate your boat!
Taken Out of the water..
yes its a pain in the rear lol worth it though
What kills me is Lake St Clair isn't considered part of the Great Lakes but yet you can't get from Lake Huron to Lake Erie without going through Lake Sinclair
I guess you're the only one who thinks that 😅
So, it was a fine area then humans fucked it up. Got it.
Oh stop,,,when was the last time you visited the area, it's still beautiful.
nice commercial with a little History
Too many clips and music not enough history
Home Sweet Home
Not a word about how the lake has become a dumping ground for human waste and non-native plant and animal species but as long as the surface is shiny...those that live on the edges still like it.
Yet it still is one of the cleanest waterways in the world . No good swimming out west
We don't just like our lake, we LOVE it! There are many initiatives and local organizations that are working to clean it up, because of course we care. In the meantime, if you have found a magical way to make big corporations do the right thing and clean it up themselves, I would love to hear about it.
Build a dam on the Red Run at Dequindre and let Oakland County figure out what to do with their own poop.
The answer is expensive. The storm and sanitary drains need to be separated, as right now they are shared. Whenever there is a large rain it overwhelms the drain, which leads to water treatment plants. During this time, the drains are diverted to the lake. So, separate the two systems and also make use of more natural ways to retain storm water, like ditches and engineered grassy low spots.
Plenty of old beer bottles on the bottom.
and new ones too!
My neck of the woods.
Stop the annoying background noise.
Loose the music- monotonous and too loud
They should have left in the frontier
What a dump! Metro Beach no mas por favor ! Mucho Grosso!
oof i moved over to a place ON the Clinton River a few years ago knowing nothing about this area and I couldn't agree more! it is nasssty water in the Clinton River. the beach at metro park is also a place Id never go to again! there are a lot of nice clean beaches north of Mt Clemons, near Port Huron. it's definitely worth the short drive for a day on a clean, free, uncrowded beach.
22:29 that girl thiccer than a sniccer
So?!??
We dont have beavers or loons in lake st clair where tf did most of these clips come from? Not lake st clair!
Yes actually, over by the flats and Canada.
huh.? I saw a bever across the river a few weeks ago. they're definitely out here on the ol clinton River my friend. lots of cranes and blue herons everywhere....
Lake st clair is not large. On a map it is a spec next to lake erie n below lake huron
30 miles, top to bottom, 30 miles, east to west, is considered quite a large lake in most other parts of the U.S.
15th largest lake in the country
Nobody snowmobiled on lake st clair in 2 years. The lake didn't even freeze this winter fool
I live 15 min boat ride up the Clinton River and it actually did freeze for about 3 days. not the entire lake of course but enough to walk out and drill a hole! caught a couple perch too. until next year my friend!